Adverse Camber: The development of an ADHD informed writing and research practice.
Saturday 8th February
I’m thrilled to have been invited to present my research alongside a brilliant slate of speakers at the Have Some Imagination: Towards a Manifesto for Arts Education conference. I will be talking about the lived experiences of ADHD in education and the ways in which I’m leaning into it as a paradigm for research and learning. Please come along, it promises to be a great weekend of talks, performances, and exhibitions.
Blurb from the Baltic:
Presented by Baltic and Northumbria University, this two-day international conference will address the transformational value of creative learning for envisioning and sustaining collective futures.
As a result of educational policy changes and the impact of austerity on arts spending over recent decades, the delivery of arts education in schools, colleges, and universities has been pitched into an unprecedented crisis. Across geo-political contexts, a narrowly financialised discourse of the arts has come to predominate in public culture, often making arts education seem unworthy when contrasted with disciplines with supposedly better monetised outcomes and job prospects.
The conference will feature an array of performative lectures, round tables and interactive workshops designed to ignite meaningful dialogue, innovative thinking and strategise for an arts education of tomorrow. Together, we can envision and create a more inclusive, imaginative, and impactful landscape for arts education, ensuring that every voice is heard, and every perspective is valued.
The full conference schedule, including keynotes, activities and detailed session times will be announced in earlyDecember. Lunch and refreshments provided.
Tickets on sale soon